Baseball Question

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I always wonder about this. People always start naming pitchers who threw 400 innings for 20 years in a row as examples of why pitchers today are getting off easy and not as tough. It seems like faulty logic to me.

Obviously there's no disputing the fact that plenty of pitchers threw a ton of innings, but we don't really know the names of the pitchers who threw a lot of innings for a few years and then blew their arms out.

I always suspected that guys like Seaver and Spahn and all the other pitchers who made it through all those complete games and innings are just the outliers in a bell curve, essentially irrelevent in the grand scheme of things.